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Alexander Burton

Alexander has been involved in the successful delivery of Enterprise Project Management and SharePoint solutions since 2005. Alexander’s passion and knowledge bridges both the project management and technical disciplines, which gives him a unique understanding of real world issues encountered in project delivery and management within organisation and how technology can assist.
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Amit Vasu

Amit Vasu is Sr. SharePoint consultant, working on SharePoint and related technologies since 2003. For the past 9 years Amit is working at MS Partner OnX Enterprise Solutions and currently leading the SharePoint team. Amit's main area of focus is on creating solutions for Information Workers with

SharePoint and related .NET technologies. Amit also frequently participates in the SharePoint community events.

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Antonio Maio

Antonio Maio is Microsoft SharePoint Server MVP and a Senior Product Manager with TITUS, bringing with him over 20 years of experience in both software development and product management. Antonio's background includes education and industry experience in cryptographic systems, public key

infrastructure and information security, and he has previously held senior positions at Corel, Entrust, and several Microsoft partner organizations. His broad knowledge and experience with Microsoft SharePoint extends over the last 8 years and centers particularly around solving security challenges while at the same time helping customers share the right information with the right people. He utilizes these experiences to help craft the product direction and focus for TITUS. 

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Barry Jinks

Barry Jinks is the Founder and CEO of Colligo Networks, the SharePoint apps company. With over 5,000 customers around the World, Colligo pioneered the development of client-side applications that increase user adoption of SharePoint on PCs, laptops, tablets and smartphones. Barry is a frequent speaker at SharePoint and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) conferences worldwide. He was named Ernst and Young's Pacific Region "Entrepreneur of the Year" for Technology.
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Chris McNulty

Chris McNulty is a strategic product manager for SharePoint Solutions at Quest Software, where his responsibilities include the strategic product direction for Quest’s SharePoint solutions. Chris is a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), and a member of the Microsoft Solutions Advocate and MVTSP programs. A frequent speaker at events around the U.S., Chris is the author of the “SharePoint 2010 Consultant’s Handbook – Managed Metadata Service,” and blogs at http://www.chrismcnulty.net/blog and http://www.sharepointforall.com
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Chris Riley

Product Manager and Evangelist at CloudShare, Chris Riley is a pure Technologist and recognized industry expert in document recognition, ECM, Cloud Computing, and analytics technologies. Chris lives and breathes technology and has been helping companies buy, use, and optimize advanced technologies given their business process and use

case. Chris’s focus on market education has helped expose underlying problems in the acquisition and use of advanced technology and has helped both end-users and vendors mitigate the challenges to achieving ultimate success. Riley has 12 years experience in this arena, owned three software companies, and obtained several technology and business awards. He has degrees in Business Administration, Computer Science, and Mathematics, and holds certifications from the enterprise content management (ECM) trade organization AIIM as “Enterprise Content Management Practitioner (ECMp)”, “Information, Organization, and Access Practitioner (IOAp)” and “Capture Practitioner”. Mr. Riley is a sought after speaker, and educator throughout the content gathering and delivery space.

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Christian Buckley

Christian Buckley is a SharePoint MVP, an internationally recognized author and speaker, and Director of Product Evangelism for Axceler, where he drives product awareness and both partner and community development. He previously worked at Microsoft as part of the enterprise hosted SharePoint platform team (now part of Office365), and led an engineering team in

advertising operations. Prior to Microsoft, Christian was managing director of a regional consulting firm in the San Francisco East Bay, started and sold two technology startups, and worked with some of the world’s largest hi-tech and manufacturing companies to build and deploy collaboration and supply chain solutions. He is co-author of Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Creating and Implementing Real-World Projects (MSPress),  three books on software configuration management and defect tracking, and can be found online at www.buckleyplanet.com and www.twitter.com/buckleyplanet

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Cory Roth

Corey Roth is an applications architect at Infusion Development specializing in SharePoint solutions in the Oil & Gas Industry.  Corey is a two-time recipient of theMicrosoft MVP award in SharePoint Server.  When it comes to SharePoint, he specializes in ECM, Enterprise Search, and Business Connectivity Services.  As an active member of the SharePoint community, he often speaks at user

groups, conferences, and SharePoint Saturdays. Corey is a member of the .NET Mafia (www.dotnetmafia.com) where he blogs about the latest technology and SharePoint.  Corey is a member of the board for the Houston SharePoint Users Group.  He loves contributing to the SharePoint community and currently has four active open source projects on CodePlex.

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Dux Sy

As managing partner for Innovative-e, Inc., Dux  is responsible for business development for a global client base ranging from Fortune 500 companies to government agencies to small- and medium-sized enterprises. Dux is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry. He has earned a reputation as being among the leading experts on leveraging collaboration tools for project management. As a thought leader in maximizing project team collaboration, Dux is also the author of SharePoint for Project Management published by O’Reilly Media. He is focused on empowering organizations on how to leverage the benefits of SharePoint technologies with quantifiable goals, such as increasing productivity and efficiency, decreasing collaboration redundancies and streamlining electronic communications. A sought after speaker, Dux has presented in various Microsoft and

Project Management Institute (PMI) events worldwide. He is very much involved in the greater SharePoint community and is an event chair for SharePoint Saturday events, which are free community-driven conferences held worldwide. Dux is a SharePoint MVP and has a bachelor's of science degree in telecommunications engineering technology with a minor in mathematics from Southern Polytechnic State University.

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Ed Musters

Ed is a SharePoint MVP and a SharePoint Architect for Infusion, where he has consulted on dozens of SharePoint engagements.  Ed holds all certifications in SharePoint 2010, and has been instructing SharePoint development courses for many years.  He has authored two books on SharePoint 2010 development.  Ed has been a featured speaker at many international conferences, SharePoint Saturdays, and user groups.  Ed would very much enjoy the opportunity to share his real world expertise with you!
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Eric Riz

Eric is the Executive Vice President of Concatenate, Inc. a software firm focused on maximizing SharePoint through product innovation and systems integration based in Toronto, Canada. He has worked with many Fortune 500 companies on their business adoption, change management and deployment strategies to ensure they maximize the benefits of Microsoft technologies and successfully implement SharePoint-based solutions. A thought-leader in the SharePoint business space, Eric is a regular contributor to many industry journals and newsletters. A sought after speaker, strategist and author, Eric has developed and facilitated management and technology sessions through-out North America and addressed conferences around the world. You can follow Eric on Twitter @rizinsights and read his latest articles on www.ericriz.com.
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Ivan Sanders

Ivan Sanders is a SharePoint MVP and independent consultant with more than 15 years of broad-based hands-on experience with the design and development of mission-critical applications and innovative information management strategies in the enterprise deployment of Microsoft products, and delivering nothing but Microsoft SharePoint solutions since

2004. Ivan is active in the SharePoint Community through the MSDN and TechNet forums, TechEd and PDC Birds of a Feather, SharePoint Saturday, SharePoint ShopTalk, INETA, GITCA, and Local Southern California User Groups. Ivan can be found bi-weekly on SharePoint ShopTalk or http://twitter.com/iasanders, http://www.linkedin.com/in/iasanders

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Ivor Davies

Ivor has over 22 years of experience in IT has been the initiator of several major business initiatives within his organization. He introduced Project Server and SharePoint to his company back in 2004. His areas of expertise are SharePoint / Project Server / Hyper-V / Business Intelligence.
 
Ivor has been working with SharePoint for about 10 years now, since Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Project Server 2003 were initially released.
 
He is interested in SharePoint Governance and SharePoint adoption / User Training and just recently made a presentation at the SharePoint Summit 2012 in Toronto (May 2012).
 
He has volunteered his SharePoint knowledge and services to non-profit organizations and small start-ups giving them the benefit of his many years in IT. He is always looking at how new and current technology can be applied to resolve business problems and processes.
 
Ivor is very active in Social Media with LinkedIn (http://ca.linkedin.com/in/ivordavies), Twitter (@IvorDavies59), Facebook and Pinterest.
 
Ivor is always looking to expand his network and share his knowledge with others in the SharePoint community.

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Jason Bero

Jason Bero is a Microsoft Solutions Architect at Softchoice Corporation and Microsoft Virtual Technical Specialist (VTS) for the Office365 platform.  Jason has been providing services surrounding strategic planning for large-scale global collaboration environments for more than 15 years and speaks

at several conferences and user groups across North America.

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John White

John P White is the Chief Technical Officer at UnlimitedViz Inc. He holds a Master’s degree in Engineering from the University of Guelph and is a Microsoft SharePoint MVP. He has spent more than 20 years in the Information Technology space, and possesses a skill set that spans both architecture and development.  Over the past decade, he has become increasingly focused on the Microsoft SharePoint and Business Intelligence platforms and has become an expert with the latest that these platforms have to offer. He blogs as actively as possible at http://whitepages.unlimitedviz.com.  
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Juan Larios

Juan Larios is a SharePoint Architect at Brightstarr. Juan is a seasoned speaker and an experienced developer and SharePoint Architect. He has a passion for technology, learning and teaching. 
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Mark Miller

Mark Miller is founder and editor of EndUserSharePoint.com, one of the world’s most popular sites for SharePoint End Users. He coordinates a group of a dozen contributing authors, managing the day-to-day aspects of editing and publishing content for the site. Under Mark’s leadership EndUserSharePoint.com receives up to 23,000 unique page views a day, has a Weekly Newsletter subscription base of over 6000 readers and handles hundreds of questions weekly through the Stump the Panel: SharePoint Q&A Forum. The site also provides twice weekly live online workshops for all three levels of SharePoint End Users; Information Worker, Power User/Site Admin, Site Collection Admin. When not teaching or writing about SharePoint, Mark can be found designing paper airplanes and studying the origami of Robert Lang. He lives in New York City with his wife, two children, one gerbil, one goldfish and one Nintendo DS that is constantly being fought over by the gerbil and the goldfish.
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Mary Ann D. Lorkowski

Mary Ann Lorkowski (Ann) is a senior SharePoint business analyst. Her expertise focuses on implementation strategies and collaboration. She has helped various companies with their governance, roadmaps, implementation, user adoptions, and the development of metrics. Ann is certified as a Microsoft IT Professional in SharePoint Server 2010 and as a Microsoft IT Specialist in MOSS 2007. Ann speaks to various SharePoint conferences and presented 2 case studies to the first ever SHARE 2012, "The SharePoint Conference for Business Users". 

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Naomi Moneypenny

Naomi Moneypenny is CTO at Synxi (a ManyWorlds brand) where she leads the development team and has overall responsibility for the infrastructure that is used internally, for partners and enterprise clients. Prior to her current position, Naomi was a business and IT strategist at Shell, where she was one of the youngest managers ever in the company, working

on technology forecasting and collaboration. She has a Masters degree in Astrophysics as well as graduating in executive programs in strategy and M&A from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management. She holds 15 patents in the area of adaptive systems.

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Nicole Pullin

Nicole Pullin is a Senior Consultant at imason inc. with a focus on User Experience. She has spent the last seven years implementing designs on the SharePoint platform and is passionate about creating positive experiences for people through technology.  If you really want to see her excited, ask her about semantic code, responsive web design and contextual help. Just take a step back; she likes to talk with her hands.
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Noorez Khamis

Noorez Khamis is a Microsoft recognized MVP in SharePoint Technologies. He has a background as a Senior Information Management Consultant & Senior SharePoint Architect with comprehensive experience in enterprise scale information solutions and portals. His technical background involves the project management, envisioning, architecting and hands-on development of complex IT solutions. He has 13+ years of industry experience in a consulting capacity while having been directly involved in over 100+ different projects spanning the entire SharePoint spectrum including collaboration, document management, records management, business process management as well as web and enterprise content management solutions. Noorez is also an active blogger and an evangelist of the SharePoint platform.
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Peter Newhook

Peter Newhook is a Business Analyst at Cineplex Entertainment in Toronto. He’s worked on SharePoint 2007, 2010 and the migration in between. At Cineplex he focuses on form automation and workflow. He’s also written an article for Nothing But SharePoint on how to build a Twitter client in InfoPath,http://bit.ly/qADrN2. His other SharePoint interests include business intelligence and HTML5.
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Richard Harbridge

Richard Harbridge is an internationally recognized expert in Microsoft SharePoint and is a technology and business evangelist with deep expertise in information architecture, enterprise content management, and technology strategy. He has defined, architected, developed and successfully implemented well over a hundred SharePoint solutions from small implementations on a single server to over 80,000+ user implementations in international organizations.  As a sought-after speaker he often shares his insights, experiences, and advice around collaboration, knowledge management, social computing, ROI, governance, user adoption and training at many industry events. Richard hopes to see you/speak with you at SharePoint Saturday Toronto as it’s an amazing and free event where hundreds of people exchange and share experience, knowledge, and relationships to help us all become even better at our jobs and the things we are passionate about.
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Rob Windsor

Rob Windsor is a Lead SharePoint Consultant with Allin Consulting - a Microsoft Gold Partner based in Boston. He has over seventeen years experience developing rich-client and web applications with Delphi, VB, C# and VB.NET and is currently spending a majority of his time working with SharePoint. Rob is a regular speaker at conferences, code camps, and user groups across North America and Europe. He regularly contributes articles and videos to MSDN, TechNet, and the Pluralsight On-Demand library and is the co-author of Professional Visual Basic 2010 and .NET 4 for Wrox. Rob is the founder and past-president of the North Toronto .NET User Group and has been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for his involvement in the developer community.
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Serge Tremblay

Serge has been training and consulting with the SharePoint Technologies since 2001.  He has been an MCT since 2000 and has been awarded the MVP award for SharePoint in the past 4 years.  Serge is very active in the SharePoint community in Montréal where he is leading the SharePoint Québec User Group.  He is passionate about SharePoint and has been speaking in multiple conferences and events.
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Shai Petel

Co -founder of KWizCom Corp, acting as a VP of research and development for the company. I have been designing and developing SharePoint solutions since version 2001. I am a Microsoft certified trainer, MCPD: SharePoint Developer 2010 and was awarded the MVP on 2011. I also have vast experience in working with dedicated in-house teams; introduce them to SharePoint and help planning, designing and implementing SharePoint solutions.
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Virgil Carroll

Virgil has run High Monkey Consulting over the past 14 years and is instrumental in HMC’s three practice areas: Collaboration, User Experience and Interface Design / Development. Virgil has countless years of experience working with Microsoft technologies and assisting clients in building systems that both work and are 'easy-to-use' (I know, crazy isn't it). Virgil loves to talk, which allows him to speak to audiences all around the world on collaborative topics and user experience. In the recent past Virgil was a presenter at the SharePoint 2008 conference as well as SharePoint Best Practices conferences in Washington DC, San Diego, California and London, England as he continues to spread the important message of keeping business first
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Yaroslav Pentarsky

Yaroslav has been involved in SharePoint solution architecture and implementation since 2003 and is also a Microsoft MVP since 2009. Yaroslav frequently presents at local and worldwide tech events as well as online; you can always find a fresh bit of SharePoint information on his blog: www.sharemuch.com; to learn everything

Yaroslav knows about SharePoint, check out his books: "Top 60 custom solutions built on SharePoint 2010", "SharePoint 2010 branding in practice", and "SharePoint 2010 and PowerShell Expert Cookbook"

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